Charles Edward Morrison
Charles Edward Morrison was born on January 8, 1836, in Concord, New Hampshire, to Leonard and Sally Morrison. His father was a farmer who owned $2,000 of real estate by 1850. He grew up and attended school in Boscawen, New Hampshire, and he moved to Groton, Massachusetts, in the 1850s. He married Mary Copp on April 26, 1857, and they had at least six children: George, born around 1859; Mary, born around 1862; Bertha, born around 1863; Alice, born around 1869; Charles, born around 1874; and Fred, born around 1880. He worked as a railroad ticket master, and by 1860, he owned $200 of real estate and $500 of personal property. A decade later, he owned $4,000 of real estate.
He chose not to enlist in the Union army, insisting that he had a duty to remain at home and care for his family. Nonetheless, he expressed devotion to the Union cause. In May 1861, he declared that Union soldiers were “defend[ing] our Liberties and our country from traitors & thieves, who would divide our glorious United States in petty states like Mexico or So America despized by each other and the nations of the world!!” He moved to Ayer, Massachusetts, in the 1870s and then to Dover, New Hampshire, in the late 1800s. By the early 1900s, he was working in the “grocery and provision business.” He died of “intestinal obstruction” in Laconia, New Hampshire, on June 18, 1916.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (4995) | Morrison, Charles Edward | 1836-01-08 | 1916-06-18 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 6
- (13895) [writer] ~ Charles E. Morrison to John S. Cooke, 24 April 1861
- (13899) [writer] ~ Charles E. Morrison to John S. Cooke, 6 May 1861
- (13902) [writer] ~ Charles E. Morrison to John S. Cooke, 22 May 1861
- (13905) [writer] ~ Charles E. Morrison to John S. Cooke, 14 June 1861
- (13908) [writer] ~ Charles E. Morrison to John S. Cooke, 26 June 1861
- (14024) [writer] ~ Charles E. Morrison to John S. Cooke, 24 July 1861
People - Records: 1
- (4995) Morrison, Charles Edward is the [friend of] (2287) Cooke, John Stevens
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, and 1910 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; New Hampshire Death Records, 1650-1969, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, available from Ancestry.com; Hollis (NH) Times, 23 June 1916; Charles E. Morrison to John S. Cooke, 6 May 1861, DOT0199.006, Nau Collection
